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Loss of Creation and its Recovery Through Aquinas and Bonaventure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Damien Marie Savino F.S.E.  and
John P. Hittinger
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New Blackfriars , Volume 97 , Issue 1067 , January 2016 , pp. 5 - 21
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